On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 10:15:06AM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:> On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 09:36, Andrew Morton wrote:> > A few fixes have been discussed. One way would be to allocate> > the space for the page when it is first faulted into reality and> > deliver SIGBUS if backing store for it could not be allocated.> > You still have to handle the situation where the page goes walkies and> you get ENOSPC or any other ERANDOMSUPRISE from things like NFS. SIGBUS> appears the right thing to do.> exactly. It need to preserve the page dirty in the first place.